The October 2025 edition of the DHIS2 Highlights newsletter is now available!
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NEWS
- Investors and partners show support for DHIS2 at our 2025 Investor Meeting Global partners met to discuss sustaining the DHIS2 platform and national LMIC systems amidst the current funding crisis
, calling for long-term support for DHIS2 as a digital public good .
- Partnering with UNFPA on reproductive, maternal and child health & WHO on cancer data Collaborations are expanding! DHIS2 is working with WHO to include cancer data
and partnering with UNFPA & WHO to strengthen accountability for RMNCAH (Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health).
- Join our webinar on DHIS2 Climate & Health Tools for immunization programmes Register for the Gavi-supported webinar on 29 October at 13:00 CET to explore climate tools for immunization planning
.
- Climate & Health updates: Pilot country videos and new resource on digital tools for climate resilience Check out new resources including videos
from pilot countries and DHIS2’s feature in the Global Goods Guidebook Climate Services for Health Annex .
DEVELOPERS & COMMUNITY
- Join us to discuss using AI tools with DHIS2 Attend the Developer Community meetup on 9 October at 11:00 CET to discuss AI Tools for DHIS2 Development
. The session includes a presentation and an Open Mic for sharing your own AI use cases.
- Recording: App Platform Updates The recording from last month’s Developer Meetup, which covered the CLI revamp, Vite config features, and Tailwind CSS integration, is now available on YouTube
.
- Community members share their thoughts on DHIS2 Watch the latest “What Does DHIS2 Mean to You” videos featuring users discussing HIV/logistics (Equatorial Guinea
), reducing stock-outs (Comoros
), and supporting NTD programs .
- CoP Monthly: Keeping busy in October! Check out the latest Community of Practice monthly update to stay connected
.
LOGISTICS
- New in DHIS2 for Logistics: mSuppy collaboration, Academy in Kigali, and upcoming online meetup HISP Centre & mSupply Foundation are partnering to strengthen supply chains
. Join the first online LMIS & Supply Chain meetup on 14 October . Registration is open for the End-to-End Supply Chain Academy in Kigali
.
DHIS2 news & HISP activity roundup
- HISP Highlights: HISP Ethiopia contributed to the African Climate Summit
. South Sudan
launched an Oral Cholera Vaccine Dashboard . Tanzania
is piloting a new Electronic Immunization Registry . Data Entry & Analytics Training was facilitated for 5 Caribbean countries in St. Lucia
.
ACADEMIC SUBMISSIONS
- Last chance! Submit papers for the special DHIS2-themed issue of SSM - Health Systems The final deadline for contributions to the DHIS2-focused journal issue is October 31st
.
TECHNOLOGY
- Find resources on DHIS2 for Health Campaigns on our new webpage DHIS2 is featured in the Unicef Digital Tool Guidebook for Health Campaigns. A new webpage provides guidance and downloadable tools for campaign planning and evaluation
.
- Learn how you can explore the DHIS2 software roadmap & share your ideas with us! A new CoP post explains how to view the official software roadmap and submit your feature ideas
to the DHIS2 team.
- Slideshow autoplay now available in Dashboards App v101.4.0 The latest Dashboards App version adds new functionality to set your dashboard to present items as an automatic slideshow
.
- DHIS2 software updates & patch releases Keep your software updated with the latest releases: v42.2 , v41.5.1 (Hotfix), and v40.9 .
ACADEMIES & EVENTS
- DHIS2 Asia-Pacific Conference 2025 Last chance to register for the conference in Bali, Indonesia, 15-17 October
.
- Academy on End-to-End Supply Chain Management with DHIS2 and mSupply Join the hands-on Academy in Kigali, Rwanda
, from 10-15 November
.
- Tracker Configuration Fundamentals Academy Register for this Academy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
, from 24-28 November to master tracker program configuration.
- Pour la Communauté francophone
- Académie DHIS2 sur l’administration serveur: Master server installation and maintenance in Lomé, Togo
, from 20-24 October .
- Académie DHIS2 sur les Principes de base de la saisie et de l’analyse des données du Tracker: Learn individual data analysis in Kinshasa, DRC
, from 24-29 November .
- Académie DHIS2 sur l’administration serveur: Master server installation and maintenance in Lomé, Togo